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[Splendid ceremonies - Brussels] - STROOBANT, Jacobus - Brusselsche eer-triumphen, dat is Eene wa...

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[Splendid ceremonies - Brussels] - STROOBANT, Jacobus - Brusselsche eer-triumphen, dat is Eene wa...
[Splendid ceremonies - Brussels] - STROOBANT, Jacobus - Brusselsche eer-triumphen, dat is Eene waerachtighe beschrijvinge van alle de Hertoghlijcke huldinghen, der Keyseren (...). Inne-komsten, Vreugde-feesten en Tournoy-spelen, Geschiet binnen de Princelijcke Stadt Brussel (...). Eyndenden, met (...) Groote Feeste, van het dry hondert jarigh Jubilé van het hoogh-weerdigh H. Sacrament van Mirakelen. Brussels, Peeter de Dobbeleer, 1670 [bound with] DE CAFMEYER, Petrus, Hooghweerdighe historie van het alder-heylighste Sacrament van Mirakel [and] Eerste (-tweede) vervolgh [and] Jubilé van den Jaere 1735. Brussels, Nicolaus Stryckwant, Aegidius Stryckwant, Carolus de Vos, Joannes Baptista de Vos, 1735 [and with] Vreugde-gezang; tot eere ende glorie van het Alderheyligste sacrament van mirakel (...) 14 April 1793 (...). [Brussels, s.n.], 1793. 3 works in 1 vol., folio, contemp. sheep over boards (rubbed, sl. def. at head and tail), elaborately gilt spine, I : [14]-127-[5] pp. II : 3 parts: [22]-48, [2]-70, 64 pp. III : broadsheet (30,5 x 19 cm) (minor traces of use). Very good copy. Cfr. ill. € 500/700 I : Rare survey of royal entries and similar festivities in Brussels, culminating in the sumptuous tercentenary procession of the Holy Sacrament of the Miracle (3 miraculous hosts which started to bleed on Good Friday 1370 when Jews had pierced them with knives - a typical case of the continuation of medieval anti-semitism). Illustrations : engr. emblematical front. with panoramic view of Brussels by J. Troyen, 10 full-page engr. plates (some folding) by Gaspar Bouttats. II : History of the Brussels Holy Sacrament of the Miracle, ill. with 49 engr. plates mostly by Harrewyn, some full-page or double-page, others within woodcut borders. III : Very rare verse eulogy of the Brussels 'Miracle'. Woodcut ill. Printed in 2 cols. Ref. I : Matagne (Namur) S-480. BL London (1). Not in Landwehr, Splendid ceremonies. Not in BN Paris, NUC. II : BL London (1). NUC (2). Not in BN Paris.